readytorunbook Chapter 375 The Unknown Future
Chapter 375 The Unknown Future
Chapter 375 The Unknown Future
When Li Ke was thinking about winning the MVP and Dpoy at the same time, Rivers was also thinking about the best coach.
He has led the team to be number one in the league for two consecutive years. This year, the only one who can compete with him is the old thief Bobo of the Spurs.
In this season in history, the best coach was taken away by the old thief Bobo.
The reason is simple. The Spurs' record is the top two in the league. After several years of dormancy, the Spurs have returned to the ranks of strong teams.
As well as this year's Spurs, they have played an excellent European-style offense, and the viewing pleasure has also been greatly improved.
The Spurs in this time and space have also done the same.
Therefore, from the bottom of his heart, Li Ke is not very optimistic about Rivers.
If Lao Li really missed it again this year, Li Ke can only say: Sometimes, it is reasonable to give two people the first prize.
Not to mention this year, Lao Li does not have much advantage over Nirvana's Bobo.
But last year, the Bobcats played a dominant role in the regular season, and the Bulls made great progress. Lao Li and Thibodu should be tied for the award.
Although there is no advantage, Lao Li still has a million fantasies. At the moment of the playoffs, Lao Li emphasized: "The opponents in the first two rounds of the playoffs may not be that strong, but we can't relax. I just want to see two series without suspense!"
For the Bobcats, the No. [-] ranking in the East brings ease in the first two rounds of the playoffs.
In the first round, their opponent was the Knicks, who were 34 wins and 32 losses and barely made the playoffs.
Although sitting on Guagua, Stoudemire and the boxing champion, and the point guard position also played Jeremy Lin who was crazy about Lin at the end of March, this Knicks team is still vulnerable.
Because their defense is so bad, from the inside out, the only two qualified defensive players are the boxing champion and Iman Shumpert.
Facing the Bobcats with strong offensive firepower, if the Knicks can refuse to sweep, it is already considered good.
In the second round, the Bobcats' opponent will be the winner between fourth and fifth in the East.
The fourth is the Pacers, who focus on defense and are all soldiers on the offensive end, and the fifth is the Eagles led by Jon Johnson, Josh Smith and Al Horford.
Among them, as far as the Pacers are concerned, Paul George has not yet grown up. Only relying on Danny Granger, who has not yet been seriously injured, and David West, who is getting older and more bewitching, the strength of the Pacers is still a lot worse.
For the Eagles, Jon Jonsen has fallen a lot, Josh has not reached the realm of taking over the throne of the Eagles, Al Horford is far from the peak, and the strength of the Eagles is not enough.
Looking at the other half of the Eastern Conference, the Bulls' first-round match against the Magic is actually a bit of a suspense. After all, the Magic still has sparks, and there are also small black beans on the outside. Coupled with Ryan Anderson, who has made great progress, the Magic has a chance to beat the Bulls.
Not to mention, the Bulls' hidden danger of injury has been lurking all the time, and no one knows when it will explode.
The first round of the Cavaliers against the Celtics is a classic matchup, but...
The Big Three of the Celtics are too old, and there are many internal conflicts. There is no chance for the Cavaliers at the top of the Big Three.
In the second round, if the Bulls advance and hit the Cavaliers, a good show will be staged.
To put it bluntly, the East is a triwizard struggle for hegemony, and most of the rest are rotten fish and rotten shrimp.
In the West, the Spurs faced the eighth Jazz in the West, the Thunder faced the Mavericks who were seventh in the West, and the Lakers faced the Nuggets who were sixth in the West.
Even the Grizzlies, fourth in the West, have no suspense against the Clippers, fifth in the West.
But in the second round, when the Spurs played against the Grizzlies and the Thunder played against the Lakers, some suspense arose.
Even so, public opinion is still optimistic about the Spurs and Thunder meeting in the Western Conference Finals.
To put it simply, in this year's Western Conference, the Spurs and the Thunder are competing, but other than that, the strength of the other teams is still more balanced than that of the Eastern Conference.
……
The much-anticipated playoffs will begin soon.
Bobcats also embarked on their way to defend the title, the first game, ushered in the challenge of the Knicks at the Time Warner Center in Charlotte.
The current head coach of the Knicks is Mike Woodson, who focuses on defense.
Before him, the head coach of the Knicks was Stan Van Gundy, who was dismissed from the Magic.
The first half of the season, led by Stan Van Gundy, played the worst defense in the league.
The Knicks couldn't bear it halfway, so they fired Stan Van Gundy and replaced them with Mike Woodson, who is good at defense.
This change is of no use at all.
"Stan Van Gundy is miserable. Before the Heat, he led the team and got out of class for no reason. After that, in the Magic, he brought out the peak of the Magic. The peak slipped a little bit and got out of class again."
"It's the same with the Knicks this year. He said he couldn't train the defense, but he was replaced by Mike Woodson. Isn't it still the same?"
"At the end of the day, the Knicks' defense is a player problem, not a tactical problem."
Before the game, the Bobcats were also discussing.
They didn't put the Knicks in their eyes, and the game started. The Knicks proved with practical actions that they really shouldn't be put in the eyes of the Bobcats.
Before Li Ke exerted much force, Curry was already staring at Jeremy Lin's defense, scoring 7 points in a row with sudden shots.
The Knicks' defense exploded immediately. After all, they couldn't even defend Curry, let alone Li Ke, who was invincible in singles this season.
So, when Curry scored points, why did Li Ke go?
He went to prevent Guagua...
Stoudemire was injured. Although Jeremy Lin did not withdraw from the playoffs due to injury as in history, it is a well-known fact that he and Guagua are not compatible.
Therefore, after replacing Stan Van Gundy, the Knicks' offense is almost the worst in the league.
Guagua, Li Ke's counter-defense, became angry and his movements became bigger and bigger.
Even so, he still couldn't break through Li Ke's defense.
In this way, the game reached the first official timeout of the first quarter, and the Bobcats took a 16-7 lead by as many as 9 points.
In the commentary seat, Kenny Smith shook his head: "The gap in strength is still too great. The Knicks are no match for the Bobcats at all."
After another half quarter, the first quarter ended, and the Bobcats took a double-digit lead in a single quarter with a score of 31 to 19.
"No need to fight, really no need to fight!"
In the second quarter, the Bobcats continued to suppress, leading by 60 to 42 at halftime by as many as 18 points.
"This match really has no suspense, it's boring, it's so boring!"
At the end of the third quarter, the Bobcats had a 25-point lead.
At the end of the quarter, they put on substitutes.
The long-awaited playoffs of many New York fans came to an end.
……
"The Knicks have been swept away. There is no other possibility. The gap between the top teams in the East and the teams on the edge of the playoffs is still too big."
After the game, ESPN expert Stephen A. Smith, a representative of New York fans, expressed emotion.
His disappointment is palpable, because he knows that the Knicks' disastrous defeat this season has probably sentenced the Knicks to death.
Think about it, starting from the summer of 10, the Knicks gambled, and at the end of the gamble, they still got nothing.
Madison Square Garden, known as the Mecca of basketball, seems to be cursed.
Since the post-Patrick Ewing era, one superstar, one water...
"It's a pity that LeBron James did not choose the Knicks in 10 years. He must be able to resist the curse."
For other matchups in the playoffs, the East is just like Mei Yang Yang said, there is a huge gap between the top teams and the teams on the edge of the playoffs.
The Cavaliers easily defeated the Celtics, and even the Bulls defeated the Magic by a large margin.
It was the Pacers-Eagle matchup that was quite tangled.
It was not until the last 3 minutes of the game that the winner was decided.
The one who won was the higher-ranked Pacers.
The four games were all up and down. In this playoffs, there was really no suspense.
The same is true in the West. The Spurs beat the Jazz in the first game, the Thunder beat the Mavericks, and the Lakers defeated the Nuggets after a hard fight.
It is also up and down, without exception.
"This is the case with the shrinking season, the stratification of strength is too obvious."
In G2, the Bobcats beat the Knicks again, 2-0 in the series;
The Cavaliers beat the Celtics, 2-0 in the series;
The Pacers continued to entangle with the Eagles, but at the last moment of the final quarter, Jon Jonson stepped up and took the victory, and the series was tied 1-1.
The Bulls were at fault, and they beat the Magic, but... Rose was hurt.
Yes, Ross is still hurt.
This is inevitable, no one can fly all the time, and Derrick Rose is the same.
No, to be precise, except for a few perverts and those who cheat like Li Ke, others, one counts as one, are all included in this list.
Vince Carter, Brandon Roy, and now Rose.
In New York, Li Ke, who was checking in, sighed.
"This era of the Bulls is also over."
Unlike history, this Bulls team is really over, because they don't have Keba standing up to continue their lives.
Once Rose fell, the Bulls could only follow suit.
"There is another strong team in the Eastern Conference. It depends on whether the Nets, Pistons and Pacers can rise and replace them."
Starting from the third game of the first round of the playoffs, the league announced the ownership of the major honors of the regular season one by one.
The best rookie is Kelly Irving, who averaged 19.5 points, 3.7 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 1.2 steals per game.
With Pat Riley as a famous teacher, Irving's development has been much smoother than in his previous life. In his rookie season, he led the Heat to the top ten in the Eastern Conference.
This charge also made Li Ke see the ambition of the Heat.
"Obviously, Pat Riley, the old fox, doesn't intend to honestly rebuild it, but he doesn't know who his target is..."
Most Improved Player went to Ryan Anderson, who lifted the trophy at the Amway Center in Orlando.
Then, following the team, they beat the Bulls who lost Rose at home.
The best sixth man belongs to Louis Williams of the 76ers. He played in 62 games this season and did not start any of them.
They averaged 14.9 points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. Unfortunately, they failed to make the playoffs.
After that, it jumped straight to the best manager, Larry Bird won the trophy.
Although the second-round trade of the draft pick for George Hilga was a big loss in Li Ke's view, because the draft pick was Kawhi.
But looking at it now, the Spurs and Pacers are a win-win.
The Spurs got Kawhi and got the wing defense they desperately needed.
The Pacers got George Hill and got the master they needed.
Coupled with the visa-free operation of David West, and most importantly, the rapid improvement of the Pacers' record, Bird started the best manager trophy.
But it should be noted that Bird is not the most eye-catching general manager this season.
At least, on the Cavaliers side, Danny Ferry received more public opinion support.
But in the end, the Big Three and the operation to save the Big Three the following year still failed to give Danny Ferry a trophy for the best manager.
David Stern, obviously played his due role.
Li Ke didn't pay attention to these. What he paid attention to were the three major personal honors that have not been announced yet——
MVP, Dpoy and the best coach.
"It has not been announced until now. There is only one possibility. The league waits for another home game so that the players can win the cup at home."
Rivers frowned: "Does the best coach also have to win the trophy at home?"
Most of the players win the cup at home. Most of the management and coaches will hold a press conference and then win the cup at the press conference.
And until now, the best coach has not been announced, and Rivers feels excited, excited, but very nervous.
……
A day later, Lao Li was still disappointed.
League Vice President Stu Jackson appeared in the Utah Plateau with the best coach trophy.
Then, in a press conference, the coach of the year 2011-12 was announced, owned by Gregg Popovich.
Just like that, Rivers lost again...
Lao Li was very disappointed. Li Ke touched his chin and noticed many factors that were not easy to detect.
For example, it was not Mr. Si or Adam Silver who presented the award, but Stu Jackson.
This is very interesting...
"Looking at it this way, David Stern is going to retire, but Silver won't be in charge, Stu Jackson..."
Li Ke didn't know much about Stu Jackson, so he made a phone call and asked David Falk.
"Stu? He used to be the general manager of the Vancouver Grizzlies. After leaving the position of the Grizzlies general manager, he went to the league. He was the vice president in charge of the media at the beginning. A few years ago, he was transformed into a supervisory and disciplinary committee with great power."
On the other side of the phone, David Falk smiled: "Why, you also have a clue?"
"Those who can't see it are all fools. Isn't that obvious? The next president will most likely be Stu Jackson."
"There should be no suspense."
"So, do you know Stu Jackson's style and philosophy?"
"I don't know, but looking at David Stern's choice, he should not deviate too much from David Stern's route."
Not too far away means that it will still deviate.
But this is not surprising, because deviation is inevitable.
The NBA cannot remain unchanged, and some reforms in the future are necessary.
Don't you see, the NBA can have its current momentum, isn't it also due to David Stern's reforms?
As long as the general direction is correct, there will be no problems in the future of the NBA.
"I hope that there is nothing wrong with Stu Jackson's general direction..."
Xiao Hua was replaced by Stu Jackson. For Li Ke, there are even more unknown variables in the future.
(End of this chapter)